"BREEDING THEM TOUGH"
SMASHED PANEL IN DOOR
"That is how we breed them in the south—tough!" declared Edward Egan after he had put his fist through the glass panel of a door in a city hotel, according to the circumstances related in the Magistrate's Court today by Senior-Sergeant D. J. O'Neill, prosecuting when Egan, a carpenter, aged 53, appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., and pleaded guilty to a charge of mischief. Shortly before 6 p.m. on Saturday, said Senior-Sergeant O'Neill, the accused in a state of drunkenness, entered the. bar of the hotel, commenced abusing some of the men assembled there, and came under the notice of the licensee. The licensee remonstrated with him, and told him to leave He' became abusive towards the licensee, who succeeded in getting him outside the bar door. Outside the door he swung round and put his fist through the glass panel. The panel was valued at £10.
The accused said that he was willing to pay for- the damage, and stated that it was the first time he had been in trouble.
Egan was convicted and fined Is, and ordered to pay the* cost of the damage, £10, at the rate of 10s a week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 15
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